Food Blogging for Dollars
by Robert McGarvey
You like food. You want to make money. Right there, for many, the fantasy collapses. Who can actually make a living by focusing on food? For many — millions probably — food blogging is a hobby. Then there are the growing numbers who actually write about food and earn substantial income from a mix of brand sponsorships and advertising dollars.
This has become a golden age for food bloggers especially as the pandemic and associated lockdowns have fueled surging interest in food as well as a lot more home cooking. From baking bread to seeking inventive ways to prepare chicken wings (an unexpected pandemic favorite), a hungry public has turned to the Web and social media to learn what to cook, now, and how to cook it better.
Smart food bloggers are profiting from this.